valkyrie312

I don't have a 1/48 yet, but check out this post of mine in the Blacklist forum (towards the bottom). http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...opic=172&st=320 I am still looking to get a 1/48 - just have to find the right price. David

All I can say is wow! Great work. If only I had those sculpting skills.

All I can says is.... WOW!!!!!!

PM'ed you as well! (This seems familiar, like I posted it in another .........oh well.)

My Yamatos: 1/60 = 9 1/72 = 3 1/48 = 0 But on a more positive note, Bandai 1/55 = 13 Bandai JMs = 12 There - I feel much better with those totals!

Beautiful valk! I need to get a 1/48 VF-1S! (Too bad I'm a poor teacher.) David

Nice work! Congrats! BTW, I agree - put the Autobot symbol on the heatshield. David

Still Valkyrie312! I'm so boring - oh well, at least nobody will ever confuse me with anyone else.

Well, I changed jobs. I went from an assistant band director (out of 3 directors) to a lead band director with no assistant to help me. It was kind of crazy, so I was basically working to work and working to relax. Yuck! Things have calmed down, so my MW visits have gotten to be more frequent! David In Texas - the land of football and middle / high school band!!!!!!

HAHAHA - I figured that I was just a little behind. I was away for about a year and just got back on the boards about a month ago. Thanks! David

I was nosing around the Yamato website and I found this pic. Have I just been in the dark for a while?

Nice! I need to hone my skills in customizing and creating new things. I guess that will have to wait until the summer.

Nice! It's good to see Max and Kakizaki get some love.

The VF-1 are most certainly saturated. You can still find Banprestos, Bandai 1/55, Yamato 1/60 and 1/48 sitting on shelves gathering dust. Only the very high demand ones like the Low Vis, and VF-1A/S Hikaru are sold out. The VF-1S Roy that everyone was demanding a re-release of is easily found. The M+ stuff is pretty much gone though. Only a couple VF-11FP remain. None really flew off the shelves to start with though, it was more of a slow and steady sale volume. Howard is it like that all over japan or just the area you are located in? A lot of fans here keep saying "oh yamato's being ignorant oh yamato hates us oh they neglect us now after making money bla bla", so thats why I asked. From what you said, I gather stuff is not exactly flying off shelves. With that in mind, I can understand yamato scaling back releases. I mean if the market is saturated, the japanese fandom might want a breath of fresh air rather than buy new macross stuff. Who is to say it would sell? To US hell yea it would, but see guys our fandom on macross world, as big as it may seem, is small compared to the whole fandom in japan. And plus they are the target market, not us. Besides with market saturation there is not really a good chance to make mucho profit. Yamato is a small company why would they risk it? I mean I of all people was DESPERATE for a PV VF-0(you guys reember my polls? LOL), and I would love to see all new retools of all 3 macross plus toys, but realistically speaking, if yamato chooses not to for the time being, I don't blame them. I understand why. Doesn't stop me from wanting the "paper airplanes" but hell thats the way it is. No sense in blaming them for not making stuff we want. IF they've still got the licenses they procured to begin with, perhaps all this other merchandise non macross is to make profit until saturation wears off(1-2 years?) and then create another resurgence in macross product, considering if a market drought happens inevitably during the time no macross product is released. Don't get me wrong guys, I WANT yamato or hell even bandai to make more stuff, but if they do not I definitely understand. And I understand how a lot of you want the same, it has been a while since a company did good macross stuff, and bandai's lazy ass took too long! I can speak for the current Macross saturation in the Kansai area, Kyoto, Kobe and Osaka. I used to live in Yokosuka so I am familiar with the toy market near Tokyo. I would speculate that the retail market there has fewer Macross toys in stock, but the secondary resale market has more. For more remote areas with less gaijin and fanboy population I would speculate that they have more in stock. Those are the places I have been searching to find Low Vis. And it has worked. Now I just need you to find me a Low-Viz.

Beautiful work, as usual!

Beautiful job! Congrats on the great work!

WOW EXO! I'm impressed! Keep up the great work and keep us updated.

Graham - That custom looks awesome! If on;y my creations looked as nice. David

WOW! Neato! I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and get a 1/48. Can't wait! David

I would love to enter, but I don't think I can come to the Con. I hope that I can get my work there (first, I gotta finish it on time). Hopefully, someone can help. David

Hey KidK! Long time no talk! (How did those old bootleg 1/100s turn out?) I wish that I could get to MWCON 5 - I missed 1-4! It is always a stretch for someone from TX to make it to one of these things in the middle of the school year! (I teach school, I'm no longer in school.) Oh well. Hey - how many TX boys (or ladies) do we have on these boards anyway? David

I voted the first day, but didn't comment, but a new recast set of the VE-1 would be fabulous! I wanted to get those sets originally, but got the GBP-1S recast instead. Hopefully someone will help out we few, band of frustrated customizers!

Me too! Awesome show!

Hey ya'll - I thought that I would get back into customizing things again. I haven't done any serious work since my college days (4 years ago). I am in the process of trying to make a BanDai 1/55 Super Valkyrie into a Strike, but I need a recommendation on what color red to use. I have always liked using Tamiya paint (water based) and then clear coating the finished product. What color red do you suggest? Please help a brother out! Thanks! David

Nice! What a beauty! I only wish I could do a custom like that. I haven't seriously worked on a custom valk since..........college!!!!! (about 4 years ago) Man, I'm getting old! Seriously, nice job! Congrats! David